Correction to: British Journal of Cancer (2015) 113, 716–721; doi:10.1038/bjc.2015.279; published online 27 August 2015

Upon publication of the above paper in British Journal of Cancer, the authors noted an error in Table 2. There was an inversion of the term ‘proficient/deficient’ in the ‘MMR IHC’ section; however, the data are correctly described in the text. The corrected Table 2 is reproduced below.

Table 2 Pathological characteristics